non-lucid

Pretty simple dream. I was at a restaurant with some friends of mine when Drake showed up. He was just hanging at first but then DK Khaled came and they started bumping tracks, eventually making some new ones from scratch with a record player. We were all dancing on the tables and chilling, but then for some damn reason I left, and when I got outside I realized that there were hundreds of people waiting outside to see him. I wanted to go back in and freestyle with him but I knew that wasn't happening so I just went away. Eventually, I ended up with his sister in a basement, being hunted by a classic bedsheet girl. I actually just lay down and closed my eyes and allowed it to attack her on top of me but by releasing the fear of it there it disappeared. We went around a corner and there was a short staircase into a comfy looking kitchen and it was daytime, a light was coming in through the windows. I knew that a new boogyman wouldn't scare me at all so I said to her her "The house is reading our mind, it will figure out the only way to scare us in these last few seconds before we get out the door." I turned around to her and she was fully possessed, face contorting and then she bolted at me. I woke up.

Touché, brain.

Pretty simple dream. I was at a restaurant with some friends of mine when Drake showed up. He was just hanging at first but then DK Khaled came and they started bumping tracks, eventually making some new ones from scratch with a record player. We were all dancing on the tables and chilling, but then for some damn reason I left, and when I got outside I realized that there were hundreds of people waiting outside to see him. I wanted to go back in and freestyle with him but I knew that wasn't happening so I just went away. Eventually, I ended up with his sister in a basement, being hunted by a classic bedsheet girl. I actually just lay down and closed my eyes and allowed it to attack her on top of me but by releasing the fear of it there it disappeared. We went around a corner and there was a short staircase into a comfy looking kitchen and it was daytime, a light was coming in through the windows. I knew that a new boogyman wouldn't scare me at all so I said to her her "The house is reading our mind, it will figure out the only way to scare us in these last few seconds before we get out the door." I turned around to her and she was fully possessed, face contorting and then she bolted at me. I woke up.

Touché, brain.

D1: Non-Lucid: I'm in some odd looking place. It looks like a mash up of a backwoods bar, game room & new age things all in one. It's somewhere in the country side. The ppl there are the cast from the Netflix original Aquarius. I'm supposed to be going to some kind of bar for some reason but instead I'm in some sort of competition. Another team went first. They drive out in a jeep & launch it into the air somehow. Then they had to grab a bird out of the air. Next they shot a target & a parachute was released & they have to land in a mock house. While waiting for our turn I got woke up by my wbtb alarm.


D2: Non-Lucid: There was a computer with something displayed on the screen. It was for sale for $279 & I was buying it for Tess. Everything was foggy.

And I've never had a random name like this in my dreams. I don't know a Tess unless you count a girl from when I was a kid named Tessa but it wasn't her for sure. I think the name is significant but for the life of me I don't know why.

All I remember is driving one of really big American old-timer cars. I tried parking it, which was a challenge. There was a plot, but I forgot.

While this series of dreams never reached a high level of lucidity, it did feature two odd and intense epiphanies, and much of the time I was aware that I was dreaming.

The first stage of the dream, I was playing with a pet, a small lizard that could sit in the palm of my hand, and liked to race around my forearms and take short, gliding flights from hand to hand or from me to its terrarium. It was familiar to me and I loved it as a pet. Someone, maybe someone at work, mentioned that the lizard wouldn't live that much longer, and the next time I was playing with her (I knew she was a her, probably having just asked myself the question and come up with an answer), I noticed she was slowing down, and there was a scare where she stopped moving, but revived, and I felt strong attachment and fear for her death. The dream progressed so that she had died, and I was feeling strong grief just as if a real pet had died. I remembered seeing and playing with the small creature over months, maybe more than a year, and considered how I would hold myself together at work. Then it struck me, the whole life I remembered for this creature was in dreams. I was able to search my memories and recall that I had no terrarium and no pets. I believed, and still think it may be the case, that the lizard had appeared in my dreams before. A couple times before, I've had the experience of grief in a dream, and then the realization that the events had not taken place, though this time may be the first that I was grieving a creature who only lived in dreams. It can be emotionally powerful, feeling relief but also feeling in a sense robbed of your grief, still feeling the echo of strong emotion while knowing you have no reason to feel it. Also, I suppose it illuminates mortality and impermanence in a strange light. It's not exactly an "Aha!" moment because of the sad, contemplative quality of the realization.

Here ends this dream, more or less. It's memorable in itself, though not singular. However, it probably set the tone for the experience which followed.

The initiating conditions of the next dream are hazy. Perhaps I set out with the intention to go out drinking, and several times throughout the dream I was convinced that I had drunk too much to drive or thought I might have been drugged. I can't say I've had many "drunk" dreams, and I wasn't drinking last night. I found myself in a crowd at some kind of play/concert/pageant - some elaborate group performance with a standing room only audience. It was quite impressive and immersive, but also blatant monotheistic allegory. At some point I found myself speaking to the producer/director (quite possibly a God stand-in, but a pudgy, red-bearded one) in a corner of the balcony. He said something to the effect that he tries to get everyone excited about putting on a good show, but those who refuse to participate certainly won't be invited to the after-party. Afterward, I found myself in the crowd again, and experienced a powerful sensation of epiphany. The content of the epiphany was very much in the "born again" narrative, that there is someone behind the curtain of our existence and he/it was reaching out to me personally to be accepted into my heart. The strength of the sensation was such that not accepting wasn't really an option. Indeed, for a time after the experience I was ready to buy whatever the man upstairs was selling.

I rather expected it was Christianity, but when I exited out the front, I found it was a Minecraft-themed mosque, with big creeper parapets and mineral blocks you could pluck off the front of the building. I had the feeling I had seen this place in dreams before, too, but like the lizard, it may just be dream time and deja vu at work. Out front there was a sermon with some fairly incendiary language, and then we newcomers were handed off, presumably, to recruiters. Mine was a hunched, bulgy old man with a thin beard and lopsided features. He didn't get very far in his spiel before coming right out and saying he was a demon. He said some demons would be more coy about it, but he was more the bind you in fire and pain variety, and the ground under me morphed into a lady demon face like something out of Diablo, with bone spikes growing up around me like a cage. My go-along-to-get-along had already been wearing thin, and I was able to break free of this attack.

The dream kind of wandered on and restarted several times from there, focusing on a "Dude, where's my car?" theme and leaving me with overall decidedly mixed feelings and no inclination to dump too much meaning into the events. Still, the two "revelations" taken on their own terms were unique experiences.

Last night bed 9pm - 3:30am

DR ar 1 am

Me or someone has a private 747 jet. We are thinking where to take it. Aspen, Cannes. I tell them those places have remodeled their airports so now even big planes can land there. I'm walking around aspen airport outside, on a hill.

DR2 at 1 am

We are going to walk somewhere with another person, maybe my mom. She wants to go certain way. We go there and I show her lots of deep snow and I tell her we would be sinking in it. It's so deep, at some places small caves have formed. I look at one of those caves and there is a baby in clothes laying on the ground, moving his arms and legs. I yell at someone to call the cops, there is a baby in a cave. Because of the commotion, a man who was laying behing the baby sits up and is all confused. I tell them to call the cops off, baby was not abandoned.

Then I'm in some apartment hallway. I witness a conversation between "mom" and another woman, probable a reporter. She is telling "mom", that tha'ts the way to go if she wan't to get custody of kids and make "dad" look bad for leaving baby alone. I realize it's a scheme and I start recording it on my phone.

DR ar 3:30
I'm in an apartment in a tall building. Suddenly there is fire and some guys starts running around, trying to get away, without telling us. I look for it and I see smoke. We start gathering our pets. After a while it looks like the smoke is in some distance outside.

First dream

I saw it from top-down view. I was wandering in some dark corridors of a dungeon. I searched for some loot, and then a powerful warrior attacked me. I slashed him with a scimitar, but he was much stronger than me. If not for life draining properties of my scimitar, I'd be dead. I defeated him - his name was Korsak - and moved on. I found some more loot and doors to a huge chamber. I opened them and archers immediately shot arrows at me. I jumped back and then Korsak appeared again - this time with some magical barrier around him. He chased me, but when his barrier stopped working I cat a shrink spell on him and squished him like a bug.

Second dream

It was an evening in a city. I saw a group of people near a building that have suddenly collapsed. I came closer, picked up debris and started chewing it while watching a couple talking about marriage. The man had quite long facial hair, his hair were brown. The woman was a redhead, they were both in mid twenties.

Third dream

I was in school, it was some kind of lesson I can't quite recall. There were only few people. I left my desk, teacher didn't minded, and went to speak with a redhead girl with a pale complexion. She was wearing a pale pink blouse and jeans trousers. I asked if she'd go on a prom with me, she smiled and agreed.

Later that day I visited doctor for some reason.

Fourth dream

I was in some apartment in a flat, searching for something important and valuable. It was in a secured block of flats - there were security guards wandering around. My family was there too, searching through other apartments. Mistakenly I kicked a flower pot and had to do something with soil that fallen out - I opened a window and thrown it down. This alarmed security, I left the apartment and started searching for a way out. There were security cameras in a corridor I was on, and there were entrances to other apartments. There was also a locked door to staircase, lit by red lights. I ran to elevator and pushed a button - a wall moved and I stood in front of a huge hole opened to flat's exterior, and after a while the elevator appeared.

I entered it and among hundreds of buttons I pressed the right one, going to ground floor. After a while a voice said through speaker "Welcome in age when elevator users are screwed!". And elevator moved down with speed of a rollercoaster, taking different angles all the time. I finally got to ground floor and got to a corridor same as upstairs, but this time closed doors led to exit. There were also windows, I jumped through one, smashing glass pane and getting out of the flat. Security reacted immediately - one dude started shooting at me. I slowed time down, grabbed bullet and thrown out back, but guard managed to dodge it. Then another guard appeared, I punched him and got his pistol, then shot another one.

24/9/16
Dream 1: Jeremy doing schoolwork, go to a school watch a musical play in a gym

Dream 2: Getting stats of all the owners of every footy ground

Dream 3: Someone using call of khrulhu, had a funny long name

23/9/16
Dream 1: Doing engineering test with riley on a train

Dream 2: Couples sushi with another group

Fragment: Taking train to school

Dream 3: Settling in a place in the snow, like age of empires

Dream 4: Baketball, against idiot team, refs count microagressions as fouls

22/9/16
Dream 1: Trying to escape a house with like 6 kids government after us but we get outside

Dream 2: Around a giant magic tree, sort of wizard game, team of 4

Dream 3: Watching rugby grand final with girls from high school, talk about EJ whitten.

Dream 4: Nickolodeon kids show kind of, team fight

Dream 5: Going to men's rights speech near prison, get arrested for it

Dream 5: on old island with big churches, dad gets arrested for blasphemy against Christian people

Dream 6 Bulldogs vs collingwood final, we stat well but then go badly.

21/9/16
Dream 1: Bulldogs vs gws game, ends up as a draw

Fragment: At gradparent's maybe

20/9/16
Dream 1: Football, us vs gws, predictions

Dream 2: Getting a melways, finding out way to get to somewhere

19/9/16
Dream 1: A kind of cutting machine, dangerous but effective, only a few people allowed to use it

Dream 2: At grandparents house, doing some sort of maze or something, showing him the internet

Fragment: Getting fat

18/9/16
Dream 1: w101 i had one round where i could attack hidden, the couldn't block me or something

Fragment: sjw's getting triggered by trump

Dream 2: In a sort of old english village, a guy has secretly put a fungus in some people's food, got them addicted, its from the border with france. We meet in pub to try and come up with a plan to stop the guy

Dream 3: In a library, trying to find metal books/albums, nothing really there. Play a game, like space minecraft, constantly evolving

Dream 3: instructions for how to have a boys night, get kids to bed, make nachos call em up etc.

17/9/16
Dream 1: Trying to get access to/steal supplies like food and wood, first from jungle fortresses, then from sneaking around outside of tv sets, comedians